Newt Gingrich's campaign team resigns en masse

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/09/us-usa-campaign-gingrich-idUSTRE75864A20110609?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29

Gingrich's presidential campaign team resigned in protest on Thursday in a devastating blow to his 2012 hopes.

Rick Tyler, who resigned as Gingrich's spokesman, cited "a difference of opinion on how to move forward" as the reason why he, campaign manager Rob Johnson, senior strategist Dave Carney and leaders of Gingrich's operations in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia resigned.

Gingrich said in a Facebook posting that he was still in the race.

"I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring," he said. "The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles."

The abrupt move came as Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, faced questions about his commitment to the campaign. Shortly after launching his 2012 campaign last month, he went on a two-week vacation with his third wife, Callista.

Tyler, a long-time fixture at Gingrich's side, said there were questions about "mostly a time commitment," declining to comment further.

[spanone]

1. did they wake up this morning and realize they were working for an ASSHOLE?

[catbyte]

12. What moron announces his candidacy THEN goes on vacation?

It's like he's not even making an effort to be serious.

LOL :rofl:

[Heywood J]

21. Check this out.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/ndp-candidate-ruth-ellen-brosseau-wins-quebec-riding-042238054.html

She took a vacation to Las Vegas during the campaign, hasn't confirmed she's even visited her riding and has questionable command of French, but the NDP's Ruth Ellen Brosseau won the Quebec riding of Berthier - Maskinongé.
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During the campaign, Brosseau continued to work at the pub in Ottawa and took a vacation to Las Vegas. According to the Globe, her boss wasn't even aware she was running for office.

Stranger things have happened. The campaign was 35 days.

[IDemo]

2. 1st to rec

But certainly not the last, I expect. :)

[JHB]

3. I suspect the rats are escaping a ship doomed to sink...

...and don't want to chance it taking them with it.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Wow, that didn't take long.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

[w8liftinglady]

6. hehe.... me,too

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. I wonder what this does to Michelle's campaign.

Or the infamous, ridiculous T-Paw?

I suspect that Palin is crisp as burnt toast, and she won't even try to run. Romney? The Bushistas are getting their knives out, as are conservative christians, and Tea Baggers. Santorum? LOL. In what universe? Huntsman? That dawg don't hunt.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Nice to know Newt could spare 30 seconds to throw together a Tweet

from that cruise ship on the Mediterranean!

[tanyev]

9. They realized he's as cuddly as a cactus, as charming as an eel?

And now they won't touch him with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole?

[Angry Dragon]

10. Newt Gingrich adds to the unemploment problem in this country

It has been rumored he is looking to outsource to China and/or India

[wtmusic]

11. Looks like throwing your hat into the 2012 GOP ring is political suicide. nt

[pinboy3niner]

13. CNN attributes aides' mass exodus to "a difference of vision"

I think they could see defeat from his house.

[delunapark]

14. A Newt

Is a Newt.

:kick:

[NNN0LHI]

15. This reminds me of the Fred Thompson campaign

He announced and went to sleep for two months.

Next time I seen him he was on TV hawking "Big Gubment," backed reverse mortgages for some shady outfit.

Don

[jmowreader]

16. I think I know the "difference of opinion"

Gingrich believes he should move forward by continuing his quixotic run for the White House.

Gingrich's aides believe he should drop this moronic idea because the Gingrich campaign's internal polling indicates that Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Salvador Allende would beat him if they were allowed to run for president, and if you poll behind Idi Amin you're not a viable presidential candidate.

It is a bit hard to win a presidential election if you divorced your wife from her hospital bed, and eventually even the three teabaggers who are supporting him will admit that.

[napi21]

17. Thank goodness I have to listen to one less idiot for the next

2 years!

It sounds to me like little wifie didn't want anything to do with campaigning and insisted on a nice vacation instead!

[progressoid]

18. Oops. If ya wanna be the GOP nominee, better not go on a cruise of the Greek Isles

When you should be at the Faith and Freedom Conference. :rofl:

[damntexdem]

19. Ooh, another divorce for Gingrich!

And this multiple divorce may really shoot him down.

[Phentex]

20. kick

:kick: